[kingkongjaffa]

My family were not academic at all but we always had lots of high quality books around the house.

probably the biggest boost to my early learning was having no age restriction on books at all so encyclopaedias and college textbooks were fair game whether I was 5 or 15.

First person in my family to get a degree and also first to get a masters.

For my own kids one day the biggest risk seems to be iPads and tiktok melting their brains instead of getting lost in physical books. Child attention spans surely were longer when you could have half of chance of getting bored without a screen under your nose 24/7.

[GoblinSlayer]

I just got a random idea: don't books make attention span a habit? Especially if it's something like Jules Verne or Tolkien.